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Several Eternities in a Day: Form in the Age of Living Materials

Institution
UCLA Hammer Museum
Grant Cycle
Spring 2025
Amount
$100,000
Type of Grant
Exhibition Support
Website
hammer.ucla.edu/several-eternities-day-form-age-living-materials ↗
Several Eternities in a Day: Form in the Age of Living Materials, installation view. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Apr 5 – Aug 23, 2026. Photo: Sarah Golonka.
Several Eternities in a Day: Form in the Age of Living Materials, installation view. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Apr 5 – Aug 23, 2026. Photo: Sarah Golonka.
© 2026 Sarah M Golonka | smg-photography Several Eternities In A Day Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90024
Several Eternities in a Day: Form in the Age of Living Materials, installation view. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Apr 5 – Aug 23, 2026. Photo: Sarah Golonka.
Several Eternities in a Day: Form in the Age of Living Materials, installation view. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Apr 5 – Aug 23, 2026. Photo: Sarah Golonka.
Several Eternities in a Day: Form in the Age of Living Materials, installation view. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Apr 5 – Aug 23, 2026. Photo: Sarah Golonka.
© 2026 Sarah M Golonka | smg-photography Several Eternities In A Day Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90024

Several Eternities in a Day: Form in the Age of Living Materials features twenty-two artists from North, Central, and South America who embrace the unpredictable nature of living materials. These artists use materials such as avocado, cacao, achiote, cochineal, stone, clay, and natural dyes to create large-scale installations, paintings, works on paper, and mixed-media sculpture. Each of these materials is alive—they evolve, decay, drip, crumble, and evaporate. They are rooted in the spirit, memory, and knowledge of Brown and Indigenous worlds. The exhibition considers ideas around materials as records of the living and repositories of cosmic memory, organic decay and transformation.

See Also

Adam Nankervis, David Medalla in conversation with the cosmos, 2017. C-print. 31 7/16 × 23 5/8 in.
Exhibition Support

David Medalla: Conversation with the Cosmos
UCLA Hammer Museum
Los Angeles, CA

SANGREE, “The Grand Design,” installation view, Yautepec, Mexico City, February 8–April 22, 2017. Image courtesy of the artists and Yautepec, Mexico City
Exhibition Support

No Humans Involved
UCLA Hammer Museum

Los Angeles, CA

1964

Philip Johnson commissioned Warhol to make a large-scale work for the exterior for his pavilion for the New York World’s Fair, along with other artists. Warhol’s provocative response, a multiple portrait of ‘Most Wanted Men’ was installed a few days before the opening but was deemed too inflammatory and contrary to the upbeat image of the World’s Fair and the work was taken down.

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